Comparison

Amazon Kendra vs Dashworks

On the evidence we track, Dashworks leads this comparison with a composite score of 68/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Amazon Kendra52
★Dashworks68
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon Kendra52 / 100medium · 55%
Dashworks68 / 100medium · 57%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✗
Model
Amazon Kendrafreemium
Dashworkscommercial
Price level
Amazon Kendralow
Dashworkslow
Starting price
Amazon Kendra–
Dashworks$10
Transparent
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon Kendra14
Dashworks7
Security
Fedramp
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks–
Gdpr
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Hipaa
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Iso27001
Amazon Kendra–
Dashworks✓
Pci
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks–
Soc2
Amazon Kendra–
Dashworks✓
Trust center
Market
Content
Faq
Amazon Kendra6 items
Dashworks7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ai enterprise search. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Deployment model
Amazon KendraManaged cloud saas
DashworksHybrid
Source system RBAC permissions mirroring
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Generative AI answer synthesis rag
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Hybrid dense and sparse lexical reranking
Amazon Kendra✗
Dashworks-
Pre built native crawlers for 100 plus saas apps
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks-
Multi lingual semantic understanding
Amazon Kendra✗
Dashworks✓
Personalization based on user department context
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Optical character recognition OCR for pdfs
Amazon Kendra✗
Dashworks-
Admin dashboard for search analytics and gaps
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Bring your own LLM byo model support
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks-
SOC2 type ii
Amazon Kendra-
Dashworks✓
HIPAA compliance for medical records
Amazon Kendra-
Dashworks✓
Pricing model
Amazon Kendra-
DashworksPer employee seat

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Kendra

A managed machine learning service that enables organizations to create intelligent search experiences across enterprise data sources. It integrates with generative AI models to provide conversational question-answering capabilities through retrieval augmented generation.

Independently observed

Dashworks

Leader

Dashworks is an AI knowledge assistant that searches across your team's apps and documents in real-time to provide instant, verified answers without requiring data indexing.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Kendra

Usage-basedFree tier
as of verify ↗

Dashworks

Leader
from $10/seat/moSubscription14-day trial

From $10/user/mo billed annually. 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

  • Team$10/user/mo billed annually, $12/user/mo monthly
    • Unlimited usage
    • Core integrations
    • File uploads
    • Slackbot
    • Workflows
    • +2 more
  • Business$15/user/mo, minimum 10 seats
    • Everything in Team Plan
    • Custom bots
    • Choose between top LLMs
    • Org-wide integrations
    • AI customization
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Business Plan
    • SSO and SCIM
    • API Access Add-On
    • Custom data retention
    • Analytics and insights
    • +2 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
CLI
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Kendra✓
Dashworks✓
Self-hosted
Amazon Kendra✗
Dashworks✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • Salesforce
  • Google Drive

Amazon Kendra

15 total - 13 not shared
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon FSx
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Box
  • Confluence Cloud
  • Atlassian Confluence Server
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
  • Alfresco On-Prem
  • Alfresco One
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • ServiceNow
  • Confluence
Independently observed

Dashworks

Leader
7 total - 5 not shared
  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • Dropbox
  • Bing
  • DocuSign
Independently observed
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